Woods Lake Adventure

After hiking Lone Cone Trail for over an hour without a clear map, none of us could agree on how to find the elusive lake. Katy argued that the lake had to be close to the campground since it was named after the lake and she was right. Only is was at the opposite side of the camp. Finally, Katy and Marlin set of in one direction and Patty, Geoff, Jim and I in another. Here is Geoff taking a picture to show that we did find the lake. The camp hosts had told Jim that there was a trail going around the lake. Only 3 miles long she said.

Although it was almost 5 pm and we had no food or warm clothes with us, we decided to chance it and hike around the lake, taking our time for pictures.

After some steep hiking and bushwacking, here we are, discovering that there is no trail around the lake and that it has several inlets,

with a large marshy meadow. Too far to trek all around. So we ended up taking off our boots and wading through the mud. Made it back in about an hour and 40 minutes. Not bad after all.